Bed-frame corner construction.



E. LARSON.

BED FRAME CORNER CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED FEILZI, 1912.

1,075,922. Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

nrirrnn s ra rns ra rnn r sermon EVAN LARSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNQR TO KINNEY-ROME COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Application filed February 21, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVAN LARSON, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in BedFrame Corner Construction, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to beds, and more particularly to the corner construction of the frame.

In a certain class of beds, the corner construction ordinarily involves two castings for joining together the side and end bars and leg thereof. Such a construction is somewhat expensive and has not been entirely satisfactory.

The object of my invention is, therefore, to provide a bed frame corner construction involving the use of only one casting for rigidly connecting together the side and end bars and leg of the bed frame.

To this and other useful ends, my invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective of one corner portion of a bed frame embodying the principles of my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the casting involved in the said corner construction. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3-3 in Fig. 4. Fig. 4c is avertical section on line 44 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on line 55 in Fig. 4:.

As thus illustrated, my invention comprises a casting A formed with an upright hollow portion a adapted to be shrunk or contracted or otherwise fastened on the pipe or tubular leg B extending vertically therethrough. This casting has a rectangular body portion a. extending from the inner side of the hollow port-ion a, and the angle iron side bar C is fastened on top of this portion a by a bolt D provided at its lower end with a thumb nut (Z. This bolt D can be moved in and out of the slot a in the body portion a which latter is preferably hollow. The side bar C has a hole 0 that receives the round lug a on the top of the casting to prevent lateral and endwise displacement of said bar. The angle iron end bar E rests on the side bar G and is secured thereto by a vertical bolt 0 having its lower end provided with a nut e that bears against the under side of the side bar, and which Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented @ct. 1%,1913.

Serial No. 679,088.

slides in the slot a in the casting. A bushing 6 is placed on the bolt 6 between the two angle iron bars. Thus the bars C and E serve as the frame of the bed fabric, the bars E, one at each end of the bed, being provided in the upper flange thereof with means for attaching the helicals F of a well known fabric of this kind. This frame is easily removable from the castings by simply loosening the nuts (Z sufficiently to disengage the lugs 64 from the holes 0 in the side bars. The casting A is provided on the inner side thereof with an angle projection 64*, and the two castings at the head of the bed are connected by a bar G riveted to the vertical faces of these projections a on the castings. A similar bar connects the two castings at the foot of the bed.

The casting A is preferably of malleable iron. By one casting the corner construction is held firmly together. The constructoin is strong and effective and inexpensive as well.

liVhat I claim as my invention is:

1. A bedstead corner construction comprising a side bar, an end bar resting on the side bar, fastened thereto, a leg, a corner block secured on the leg, and means including a vertical bolt for securing the side bar to the said block, said block having an openended slot for receiving said bolt, whereby the bolt is removable with the side bar.

2. A bedstead .corner construction comprising a side bar, an end bar resting on the side bar, fastened thereto, a leg, a co 'ner block secured on the leg, means for securing the side bar to the said block, the said block having a slot therein, and means in said slot for removably securing the side bar to the block, the means for fastening the end bar on the side bar consisting of a vertical bolt having a nut that also extends into said. slot.

3. A bedstead corner construction comprising a side bar, an end bar resting on the side bar, fastened thereto, a leg, a corner block secured on the leg, means for securing the side bar to the said block, said means comprising a vertical bolt, said block having an open-ended slot for said bolt, a lug on the top of said block, the side bar having an opening for said lug, engaged thereby when the parts are in position, and a thumb nut on the lower end of said bolt, the means for fastening the end bar on the side bar consisting of a vertical bolt with a bushing thereon between the two bars.

4:. The improved bedstead corner constrution, the same comprising a corner block with a slot, a side bar having means for engaging said slot, and an end bar having means for engaging said slot, substantially as shown and described.

5. A bedstead corner construction comprising a post, a corner block fixed on said post, a side bar, an end bar secured to the side bar, and means for removably securing the side bar to said corner block, whereby the two bars are not separated by removal from said block, said end bar being of angle iron form with the lower edge of one flange thereof resting on the side bar, a bushing between the side bar and the other flange of the end bar, said other flange extending away from said post, and a bolt eX- tending through said bar and bushing.

6. A bedstead corner construction comprising a post, a corner block fixed on said post, a side bar, an end bar secured to the side bar, and means for removably securing the side bar to said corner block, whereby the two bars are not separated by removal from said block, said means including a bolt extending downward through the block and side bar, the block having an opening through which the bolt is removable in the direction of the length of the side bar, a thumb nut on the lower end of said bolt, engaging the bottom of said block, and means for preventing endwise displacement of the side bar from said block.

Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 26th day of January, 1912.

EVAN LARSON.

Witnesses:

J. NORBY, S. LEWIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

